Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn’t on the island. At dinner a record is played, by that all the people are accused of murder, suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next… It seems to be that one of them is the murderer Mr. U. N. Own, but the person in suspect is always the person who is murdered next. At last only two people seem to be left.

Film Review

Clair, a skilled Old School director, gives a peculiar, interesting adaptation of the Mrs. Christie classiche invests it with notable qualities, and makes it both funny/ quirky and appropriately grim. This version changes very much the script; I have read the novel twice, I couldn't point to all the changes, yet some at least are blatant and will not be divulged here.The alternative solutions found by Clair to this geometrical plot are, at least, imaginative, elegant and not unsatisfying. The cast offers some good performances and the movie obviously attains a style.I enjoyed the best that role which signals itself best for admirationagain, no spoilers here! Adapting Mrs. Christie, Clair, qualified director of superior amusements, achieves ,as I said, style, suspense, even a naughty lightness of the touch; conceived as a suspensevehicle , AND THEN THERE thrills and amazes. In an era of a general quality in cinema, it might have passed unnoticed and _unaccl…

Ten people are invited to a villa on a remote island and start turning into corpses one by one. The Christie novel comes alive in the adept hands of Clair and a fine cast. This is essentially a black comedy, as the murders are taken lightly and much of it is played for laughs. Clair creates a perfectly chilling atmosphere and keeps the action moving at a good pace. The cast, composed of character actors, seems to be having fun: jolly judge Fitzgerald, timid gumshoe Young, sinister-looking Anderson, and boozy butler Haydn (did he do it?). Coming off best, however, are Huston as an alcoholic doctor and Hayward as a playboy.

Agatha Christie, one of the most prolific mystery writers ever, wrote numerous novels, short stories, and plays. Three of her plays have become legends of the theatre: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (made into a brilliant film by the great Billy Wilder); THE MOUSETRAP (Still playing in the West End after a sixty year run); and TEN LITTLE INDIANS, which may be the most-filmed of all her works; I count eight on IMDb under the original stage title, and this one, the very first film made from this play, that was released with the novel's American title AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.Brilliantly filmed in stark black-and-white, this is a prime example of one of Christie's best formulas: a group of people gathered together in a remote location, and murder comes calling.It's very hard to review anything by Christie because one does not want to reveal more than is necessary, but I can safely sketch the basics of the plot: Ten people are gathered at a house built on an island about a mil…